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A Data Model of Web Data Models: Part I
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has creator: Mike Bergman
maker: Mike Bergman
created: 2007-10-10T17:05:48Z
content: Candidate Structures (?) are Manifest and All Over the Map Some of my previous postings on the structured Web have covered such items as the nature of data structure (including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data), the 40 or so existing data formalisms on the Web (ranging from standard Web pages through feeds and tags to formal ontologies), and various serialization and extraction formats. That there is a huge diversity of data structure and forms on the Web is clear. Yet, even in the face of such complexity, there is the natural human penchant for organizing things. What is surprising is the almost total lack of an overarching model or schema for classifying and organizing these various forms of Web data. There is today no accepted data model -- nor accepted vocabulary -- for Web data models. A model to classify data structure on the Web would be useful for helping to find meaningful generalities for accessing and using that data. Such a model would also be useful to help organize and streamline the pathways for processing or converting the data from one source form into another. This latter purpose is essential to data federation or combining data from multiple sources -- namely, broadening the current innovation of linked data for RDF to all Web data forms. In the case of the UMBEL lightweight subject reference structure, such a model or organizational schema would also help guide the characterization of source datasets for meaningful processing and access. Thus, formulating such a model or schema is a central task for completing the core UMBEL ontology. This Part I posting presents a survey of current practice and terminology, with a specific call to begin a practice of Web informatics. This material leads to a forthcoming Part II, wherein this information is then used to present an updated technical data vocabulary and partial ontology for the technical data model at the center of the UMBEL core. A Call for a Web Informatics Considerable work has …
encoded: Candidate Structures (?) are Manifest and All Over the Map Some of my previous postings on the structured Web have covered such items as the nature of data structure (including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data), the 40 or so existing data formalisms on the Web (ranging from standard Web pages through feeds and tags to formal ontologies), and various serialization and extraction formats. That there is a huge diversity of data structure and forms on the Web is clear. Yet, even in the face of such complexity, there is the natural human penchant for organizing things. What is surprising is the almost total lack of an overarching model or schema for classifying and organizing these various forms of Web data. There is today no accepted data model — nor accepted vocabulary — for Web data models. A model to classify data structure on the Web would be useful for helping to find meaningful generalities for accessing and using that data. Such a model would also be useful to help organize and streamline the pathways for processing or converting the data from one source form into another. This latter purpose is essential to data federation or combining data from multiple sources — namely, broadening the current innovation of linked data for RDF to all Web data forms. In the case of the UMBEL lightweight subject reference structure, such a model or organizational schema would also help guide the characterization of source datasets for meaningful processing and access. Thus, formulating such a model or schema is a central task for completing the core UMBEL ontology. This Part I posting presents a survey of current practice and terminology, with a specific call to begin a practice of Web informatics. This material leads to a forthcoming Part II, wherein this information is then used to present an updated technical data vocabulary and partial ontology for the technical data model at the center of the UMBEL core. A Call for a Web Informatics Considerable work has bee…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Structured Web
topic: UMBEL
has reply: comment-507568
links to: UMBEL
links to: structured Web
links to: nature of data structure
links to: 40 or so existing data formalisms
links to: linked data
links to: RDF
links to: Part II
links to: data warehousing
links to: ETL
links to: EII
links to: informatics
links to: 1
links to: Web science
links to: 2
links to: Aperture
links to: CBD.html
links to: Conceptual Data Structures
links to: SWCM
links to: Conceptual Data Structures (CDS) — Towards an Ontology for Semi-Formal Articulation of Personal Knowledge
links to: ICCS2006
links to: 3
links to: Data Reference Model
links to: Federal Enterprise Architecture
links to: srm.owl
links to: IANA
links to: 2045
links to: Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). CCSDS 650.0-B-1, Blue Book, January 2002
links to: The Information Model to End All Information Models
links to: METS
links to: XML schema language
links to: World Wide Web Consortium
links to: Network Development and MARC Standards Office
links to: mailing lists
links to: Nepomuk
links to: Gnowsis
links to: nie.html
links to: OpenCyc
links to: Cyc
links to: Apache License
links to: OWL version
links to: Cyc Foundation
links to: Z39 88 2004.pdf
links to: 4
links to: PIM Ontology for the Semantic Desktop
links to: Leo Sauermann
links to: ramm.x
links to: RDFa
links to: SIOC
links to: SUMO
links to: A Semantic Web Content Model and Repository
links to: OWL
links to: WSDL
links to: XML
links to: Xcerpt
links to: 5
links to: XPackage
links to: OASIS
links to: XTM
links to: 6
links to: Web Architecture
links to: [7]
links to: Web Services
links to: [8]
links to: W3C Glossary
links to: [9]

Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman
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structured Web
label: Structured Web

40 or so existing data formalisms
label: earlier posting

The Information Model to End All Information Models
label: http://archivemati.ca/2006/12/08/the-information-model-to-end-all-information-models/.

Web Architecture
label: Web Architecture.

wiktionary
label: Wiktionary

[10]

Wikipedia

[11]
label: [5]

RFC 2828

[6]

Creating a Science of the Web

took up the Web scientist mantle